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Beege wrote about this dope yesterday. His name is Khymani James and he’s the student leader of the Columbia group that has been occupying the campus. Yesterday he became famous beyond campus after a video went viral in which he said, «Be glad — be grateful — that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.» He added, «I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die.»
The really shocking part of this, as Beege pointed out, is that Khymani James wasn’t just spouting off in Instagram. This was actually his response to school administrators who were speaking to him because of a prior post on social media which mentioned killing people. In other words, this was his response during a disciplinary hearing.
Later yesterday we learned that James has been banned from Columbia’s campus.
Columbia University announced on Friday that it had barred from its campus a leader in the pro-Palestinian student protest encampment who declared on video in January that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”…
In announcing their decision to bar Mr. James from campus, the university did not make clear if he had been suspended or permanently expelled.
His comrades in the movement seem eager to assure everyone that his views are not representative.
Sophie Ellman-Golan, the communications director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice and a Barnard College graduate, said she found Mr. James’s comments awful and upsetting but she added that it was clear his views did not represent those of the other campus protesters.
Ms. Ellman-Golan said that in her 10 years as an organizer, there were always people who tried to inject hateful messages into public action, and that such messages tended to be amplified by those looking to smear entire movements.
